A catastrophic earthquake will have impacts for all Canadians. It can take years for a country to recover from such an event with some never fully recovering at all. It's been over three years since an
earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and still nearly 270,000 Japanese are displaced from of their homes and the country is importing more than 90% of its energy. The Japanese government has acknowledged that it could take more than a decade to
fully recover from the events of 2011.What if Canada was to experience a catastrophic earthquake? The presentation highlights preliminary results from Canada's first coast to coast earthquake risk assessment, highlighting areas that are at most
risk in the country. The earthquake risk assessment will guide a discussion with key decision makers on how Canada can better prepare and plan for resilience to earthquakes because better preparation for an earthquake will result in better
preparation for any disaster.

Summary

(Plain Language Summary, not published)The presentation will provide new knowledge to Canadian experts in the domain of risk and hazards. The intention of the presentation is to stimulate a
discussion to make Canada more earthquake resilient. This is the first time that a coast to coast risk assessment will be presented to the public. Research for this earthquake assessment was developed using the Hazus modeling application developed
in the previous Quantifying Geohazard Risk project.